Jim Rafferty

Research Officer – Data Scientist/Statistician We are recruiting a Research Officer in data science/statistics on the Health Data Research UK Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Driver Programme.

🚨🚨 Opportunity to come and work with us! We're looking to recruit a data scientist / statistician to apply complex models to understand adverse medicine reactions in people taking multiple medicines. Would suit someone with a background in a mathematical discipline. www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

This policy is such a no-brainer, with the commitments the government has made to reach net zero. Why on earth it hasn't be done already is anyones guess!

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"... don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, [...], by probability"

It's fair to say the Buddha was not a fan of statisticians...

It's a sad fact that the more people talk or write, the more likely they are to say something stupid. This is especially true of people that I respect.

Join our study! Are you aged between 18-45 and living in the Swansea area? The POETH team want to hear from you!

We are conducting research to understand the differences between males and females in how they respond to heat and heatwaves☀️

More info and register here👇 forms.office.com/e/JaHkrsWHzh

Huge congratulations to Prof David Ford, appointed OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for his services to social science!🎉👏

A proud moment and a well-earned recognition for his work using data to drive positive change in the UK and globally.

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I told you we’d be back

I have successfully maintained my 0% success rate at funding applications! 🥳

Why are statisticians so bad at naming things?! How can it be possible to adjust for multiple variables in a univariate joint model? 🤯

Former string theorist here! You'll get no disagreement from me on your point, but ignoring the constants does make the calculations easier.

By far the best system of units! h-bar = c = G = epsilon_0 = 1 (= i = π)!

Join our study! Are you aged between 18-45 and living in the Swansea area? The POETH team want to hear from you!

We are conducting research to understand the differences between males and females in how they respond to heat and heatwaves ☀️

Register here🔗 forms.office.com/e/JaHkrsWHzh

There's just under a week left to apply for this opportunity - the deadline is the 9th June!

Who had "the french will be football hooligans," on their 2025 bingo card?

 Health Data Science, Medical Statistics: Fully Funded Studentship in Population and Health Data Science (RS833) - Swansea UniversityMenu We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

PhD scholarship opportunity! Come and work at @popdatascisu.bsky.social with me and Prof Rhiannon Owen developing ways to analyse time series data at a population scale. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

🌍🔬Insights from MAGENTA researchers at @pintofscience.uk Cardiff! Dr Aisling Morrin on immune health in a warming world & Prof @rich-fry.bsky.social on green spaces' impact. A sold-out event with thoughtful discussion and community engagement. 🎤
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Enhanced Games: Doped swimmer claims 50m freestyle 'world record' Organisers of a controversial event allowing banned performance-enhancing drugs say a swimmer has broken a long-standing world record.

Today in "capitalism can't be trusted with ..."

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Yep. Frantically typing on overleaf now! 😂

Weird! It's still down for me in South Wales...Perhaps my connection is the problem here?!

The status page is down as well now!

Overleaf status page is now down. 403 ERROR The request could not be satisfied. Request blocked. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation. Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront) Request ID: 0sQiz-thYRh9gXSgVaY08aDxTrL9xCuL2DDXDoXAmWlr1NaRiQRdRg==

Oh dear...

overleaf status page saying: Site down Update - Our team is still working to identify the source of the issue. May 14, 2025 - 08:34 UTC Investigating - The site is currently down. Engineers are investigating. We will update as soon as possible. May 14, 2025 - 06:40 UTC

Major disadvantage number 1 of using cloud based services...

Certainly not one where you could breathe long enough to enjoy the view that we know of!

Meditation with Danny Dyer was something I didn't know I needed! 🧘

Liverpool fans' celebrations during title win caused earth tremors Celebrations at Liverpool's title-clinching win at Anfield showed up on the Richter scale.

Unironically asking a Scouser if the earth moved for them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

File on 4 Investigates - What’s Happening to Your Vet Bills? - BBC Sounds Investigation into veterinary surgery prices.

Capitalism has failed www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Nice thing here is that you have to be a baptised catholic to be eligible to be elected Pope. Being a giant satsuma with an undeserved ego the size of the solar system doesn't qualify.

There's me thinking that Trump was just joking, delusional or demented but this MF is taking every word as gospel serious. 🤦